Friendship
with Sir Philip Sidney, etc.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03
U.
S.
A.
, 1893.
(Publications of the University of Pennsylvania.
)
Whetstone, George. A Remembraunce of the wel imployed life and godly
end of George Gaskoyne Esquire. 1577.
(For Gascoigne's plays, see vol. v of the present work, and for a list of the
literary productions of Gascoigne's friend, George Whetstone (1544 ? -87? ),
see Lee, S. , in D. of N. B. ]
CHAPTER XI
THE POETRY OF SPENSER
[Bibliography by Miss Lilian Winstanley, M. A. )
EARLY SONNETS.
Noot, J. van der. A Theatre . . . Voluptuous Worldlings. (With sonnets
translated from the Sonnets of Petrarch and the Visions of Du Bellay by
E. Spenser. ) 1569.
THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDER. .
The Shepheardes Calender. Conteyning twelve Aeglogues proportion-
able to the twelve monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous
Gentleman. . . . M. Philip Sidney. Printed by Hugh Singleton, 1579.
Second Edition. Printed by John Wolfe for John Harrison the younger,
1581, 1586. Later eds. 1591, 1597, 1611.
Latin Translation: (Calendarium Pastorale Sive Aeglogue Duodecim, Toti-
dem Anni Mensibus accomodatae; Anglice olim Scriptae ab Edmundo
Spenser, Anglorum Poetarum Principe; Nunc autem Eleganti Latino
Carmine donatae a Theodoro Bathurst. Johanne Ball, Editore. ) 1653.
The Shepheardes Calender photographic facsimile of 1579 edition. Ed.
Sommer, H. 0. 1890.
The Shepheardes Calender. Ed. Herford, C. H. 1895.
Articles: Lancashire Dialect Words and Phrases from the Works of Spenser,
etc. , Grosart, vol. 1; Pastoral Poetry, etc. , Grosart, vol. III.
THE FAERIE QUEENE.
Bks I, II, III. The Faerie Queene Disposed into twelve books fashioning
XII Morall Virtues. Printed by Ponsonbye. Entered Dec. 1589. Edition
dated 1590.
Second Edition of first Three Books. 1596.
Bks iv, v, Vi. The second part of the Faerie Queene. Containing the
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Books. Printed by Ponsonbye. 1596.
Folio Edition. Printed by 'H. L. for Mathew Lownes. 1609. Includes:
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie: Which both for Forme and Matter, appeare
to be parcell of some following Booke of the Faerie Queene, under the
Legend of Constancie. Never before imprinted.
Faerie Queene. Ed. Wise, T. J. Illustrations by Walter Crane. 1894.
Ed. Hales, J. W. Pictured by L. Fairfax-Muckley. 3 vols. 1897.
The Faerie Queene. . . . Edited from the original editions of 1590-6.
Warren, K. M. 1897–1900.
## p. 520 (#542) ############################################
520
Bibliography
MINOR POEMS.
Muiopotmog or The Fate of the Butterflie. William Ponsonbye, 1590.
Complaints. Containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie, by
Ed. Sp. Ponsonbie, 1591. (Includes The Ruines of Time; The Teares
of the Muses; Virgil's Gnat; Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberd's Tale;
The Ruines of Rome by Bellay; Muiopotmos or the Fate of the Butterflie;
Visions of the World's Vanitie; Bellay's Visions; Petrarch's Visions. )
Second edition, 1596.
Amoretti and Epithalamiom. Written not long since by Edmund Spenser.
Ponsonby, 1595.
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. Ponsonbie, 1595. (Including also An
Elegie or friend's passion for his Astrophill. Written upon the death of
the right Honourable Sir Phillip Sidney Knight, Lord governour of
Flushing, and also The Mourning Muse of Thestylis. A pastorall
Aeglogue upon the death of Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight. )
Prothalamion or a Spousall Verse made by Edm: Spenser. In Honour of the
double marriage of . . . the Ladie Elizabeth and the Ladie Katharine
Somerset etc. William Ponsonby, 1596.
Fowre Hymnes made by Edm: Spenser. William Ponsonby, 1596. (Includes
also Daphnaida. An Elegie upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous
Douglas Howard. . . . ) Ed. Winstanley, L. Cambridge, 1907.
PROSE WORKS.
A View of the state of Ireland, written dialogue-wise betweene Eudoxus and
Irenaeus by Edmund Spenser Esq. in 1596. Pub: by Ware, J. , in the
Historie of Ireland, 1633. Later eds. 1763, 1809 (Ancient Irish Histories).
Also in Globe edition.
Letters to Gabriel Harvey. Three Proper and wittie, familiar Letters: lately
passed betweene two Universitie men: touching the Earthquake in Aprill
last, and our English refourmed Versifying. With the Preface of a well
willer to them both. 1580.
Two other very commendable Letters, of the same mens writing: both
touching the foresaid Artificiall Versifying, and certain other Particulars:
More lately delivered unto the Printer. (Design: charitas. ] Imprinted
at London, by H. Bynneman, dwelling in Thames Streate, neere unto
Baynardes Castell. Anno Domini, 1580.
See also the Letter Book of Gabriel Harvey, Camden Society, 1884.
8
:
COLLECTED WORKS.
The Second Folio, including the Shepheardes Calender and other works, and
differing in many respects from the First Folio. 1611. Other editions
1617-8 (see B. M. copy with notes by Warton, T. ); 1679; ed. Hughes, J. ,
6 vols. , 1715; 8 vols. , 1778 (Bell's Poets of Great Britain); 1792 (Ander-
son's Poets of Great Britain); 6 vols. , 1802 (first vol. of Aikin's edition
of Johnson's British Poets); with the principal illustrations of various
commentators, ed. by Todd, H. J. , 8 vols. , 1805, vol. ul includes: Hughes's
Essay on Allegorical Poetry, Hughes's Remarks on the Faerie Queene,
Spence's Dissertation on the Defects of Spenser's Allegory, Warton's
Remarks on the Plan and Conduct of the Faerie Queene, Warton's
Remarks on Spenser's Imitations from Old Romances, Warton's Re-
marks on Spenser's Allegorical Character, Editor's Remarks on Spenser's
Stanza, Versification and Language, Upton's Remarks on the Action
and History of the Faerie Queene, Hurd's Remarks on the Plan and
## p. 521 (#543) ############################################
Chapter XI
521
8
Conduct of the Faerie Queene; in Chalmers's Poets, 1810, vol. in includes
a Life of Spenser by Chalmers; in Aldine edition, Life by J. Mitford,
1839; Works, ed. by Gilfillan, 1859; Works, ed. by Collier, J. P. , 1862.
Globe edition. Ed. from the original editions and MSS by Morris, R. With
a memoir by Hales, J. W. 1869 ff. Revised ed. , 1897 ff.
Works. Ed. by Grosart, A. B. 1882-4. Vol. I includes a Life of Spenser by
the editor, also essays: Characteristics of Spenser's Poetry, by Aubrey
de Vere. Spenser the Poet and Teacher, by Dowden, E. Certain
Aspects of the Poetry of Spenser, by Philpot, W. B. The Introspec-
tion and Outlook of Spenser, by William Hubbard. Also Appendixes :
Entries Concerning Spenser from Burnley Church Register. Dialect
Words.
Friendship with Sir Philip Sidney, etc. eto. Vol. in includes
An Examination of earlier, contemporary and later English Pastoral
Poetry, by Gosse, E. W. Rider on the same (the editor). Who were
Rosalinde and Menalcas, etc. ? Notices of Edward Kirke, etc. Of the
Minor Poems of Spenser, by Palgrave, F. T.
.
SPURIOUS WORKS.
Brittain's Ida. Written by . . . Edmond Spenser. Walkley, 1628. (See
Giles and Phineas Fletcher's Works, vol. 11, ed. Boas, F. S. , Cambridge,
1909. )
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL WORKS.
Bryskett, Lodowick (A. 1571-1611). His Discourse of Civill Life, translated
from the Italian of Baptista Giraldo, was published in 1606, though
written much earlier. It is in the introduction to this book that the
famous passage concerning The Faerie Queene appears.
Carpenter, F. I. Outline Guide to the Study of Spenser. Chicago, 1894.
Church, R. W. Life of Spenser. English Men of Letters. 1879.
Spenser. T. H. Ward's Poets, vol. I. 1880 ff.
Courthope, W. J. The Genius of Spenser. 1868.
History of English Poetry. Vol. 11, chap. IX. 1897.
Craik, L. Spenser and his Poetry. 3 vols. 1845.
De Vere, A. Essays chiefly on Poetry. 2 vols. 1888.
Dodge, R. E. N. Spenser's Imitations from Ariosto. Mod. Lang. Ass. ,
1897, vol. XII.
Dowden, E. Spenser, the Poet and Teacher; Heroines of Spenser. Tran-
scripts and Studies. 1888.
Elton, O. Modern Studies. 1907.
Fleay, F. G. Guide to Chaucer and Spenser. 1877.
Grosart, A. B. Who Wrote Brittain's Ida ? 1869.
Hales, J. W. Folia Litteraria. 1893.
Harrison, J. S. Platonism in English Poetry. 1903.
Hazlitt, W. Chaucer and Spenser. The English Poets. 1818.
Hunt, Leigh. Imagination and Fancy. 1844.
Hunter, W. An Anglo-Saxon Grammar with . . . an analysis of the style of
Spenser. 1832.
Koeppel, E. Visions of Petrarch and Visions of Bellay. E. Stud. xv.
Landor, W. S. Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare . . . to
which is added a Conference of Master Edmund Spenser . . . with the
Earl of Essex touching the state of Ireland. 1834.
Imaginary Conversations: Essex and Spenser. 1834.
Lowell, J. R. Spenser. The English Poets. 1888.
Mantuan (Joannes Baptista Spagnuoli). Opera. 1504.
Morley, H. English Writers. Vol. IX. 1892.
## p. 522 (#544) ############################################
522
Bibliography
Pachen, J. De Dante à Verlaine . . . Spenser, etc. Paris, 1897.
Page, T. Spenser and Shakespeare. 1894.
Riedner, W. Spenser's Belesenheit. 1 Teil. Münchener Beitr. z. rom. 1. engl.
Phil. XXXVIII. Leipzig, 1907.
Ruskin, J. The Stones of Venice. 1851 ff.
Saintsbury, G. A History of English Prosody. Vol. 1, chap. v. 1906.
Sanazzaro, J. Opera omnia, 1535. Sonetti e Canzoni, 1530. [See also
Greswell, W. P. , Mems. of A. Politianus, Picus of Mirandola, A. S.
Sannazarius, P. Bembus, etc. 2nd ed. Manchester, 1805. ]
Sawtelle, A. E. Sources of Spenser's Classical Mythology. Boston, 1896.
Walther, M. Malory's Einfluss auf Spenser's Faerie Queene. Eisleben, 1898.
Willisins, J. De lingua Spenseriana ejusque fontibus. 1848.
[For further bibliography see Hales, J. W. and Lee, S. , in D. of N. B. ]
[A list of dissertations on Spenser will be found in Körting's Grundriss,
pp. 273 ff. ]
CHAPTER XII
THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET
I. ORIGINAL Texts.
Alexander, Sir William, earl of Stirling. Aurora.
Whetstone, George. A Remembraunce of the wel imployed life and godly
end of George Gaskoyne Esquire. 1577.
(For Gascoigne's plays, see vol. v of the present work, and for a list of the
literary productions of Gascoigne's friend, George Whetstone (1544 ? -87? ),
see Lee, S. , in D. of N. B. ]
CHAPTER XI
THE POETRY OF SPENSER
[Bibliography by Miss Lilian Winstanley, M. A. )
EARLY SONNETS.
Noot, J. van der. A Theatre . . . Voluptuous Worldlings. (With sonnets
translated from the Sonnets of Petrarch and the Visions of Du Bellay by
E. Spenser. ) 1569.
THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDER. .
The Shepheardes Calender. Conteyning twelve Aeglogues proportion-
able to the twelve monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous
Gentleman. . . . M. Philip Sidney. Printed by Hugh Singleton, 1579.
Second Edition. Printed by John Wolfe for John Harrison the younger,
1581, 1586. Later eds. 1591, 1597, 1611.
Latin Translation: (Calendarium Pastorale Sive Aeglogue Duodecim, Toti-
dem Anni Mensibus accomodatae; Anglice olim Scriptae ab Edmundo
Spenser, Anglorum Poetarum Principe; Nunc autem Eleganti Latino
Carmine donatae a Theodoro Bathurst. Johanne Ball, Editore. ) 1653.
The Shepheardes Calender photographic facsimile of 1579 edition. Ed.
Sommer, H. 0. 1890.
The Shepheardes Calender. Ed. Herford, C. H. 1895.
Articles: Lancashire Dialect Words and Phrases from the Works of Spenser,
etc. , Grosart, vol. 1; Pastoral Poetry, etc. , Grosart, vol. III.
THE FAERIE QUEENE.
Bks I, II, III. The Faerie Queene Disposed into twelve books fashioning
XII Morall Virtues. Printed by Ponsonbye. Entered Dec. 1589. Edition
dated 1590.
Second Edition of first Three Books. 1596.
Bks iv, v, Vi. The second part of the Faerie Queene. Containing the
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Books. Printed by Ponsonbye. 1596.
Folio Edition. Printed by 'H. L. for Mathew Lownes. 1609. Includes:
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie: Which both for Forme and Matter, appeare
to be parcell of some following Booke of the Faerie Queene, under the
Legend of Constancie. Never before imprinted.
Faerie Queene. Ed. Wise, T. J. Illustrations by Walter Crane. 1894.
Ed. Hales, J. W. Pictured by L. Fairfax-Muckley. 3 vols. 1897.
The Faerie Queene. . . . Edited from the original editions of 1590-6.
Warren, K. M. 1897–1900.
## p. 520 (#542) ############################################
520
Bibliography
MINOR POEMS.
Muiopotmog or The Fate of the Butterflie. William Ponsonbye, 1590.
Complaints. Containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie, by
Ed. Sp. Ponsonbie, 1591. (Includes The Ruines of Time; The Teares
of the Muses; Virgil's Gnat; Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberd's Tale;
The Ruines of Rome by Bellay; Muiopotmos or the Fate of the Butterflie;
Visions of the World's Vanitie; Bellay's Visions; Petrarch's Visions. )
Second edition, 1596.
Amoretti and Epithalamiom. Written not long since by Edmund Spenser.
Ponsonby, 1595.
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. Ponsonbie, 1595. (Including also An
Elegie or friend's passion for his Astrophill. Written upon the death of
the right Honourable Sir Phillip Sidney Knight, Lord governour of
Flushing, and also The Mourning Muse of Thestylis. A pastorall
Aeglogue upon the death of Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight. )
Prothalamion or a Spousall Verse made by Edm: Spenser. In Honour of the
double marriage of . . . the Ladie Elizabeth and the Ladie Katharine
Somerset etc. William Ponsonby, 1596.
Fowre Hymnes made by Edm: Spenser. William Ponsonby, 1596. (Includes
also Daphnaida. An Elegie upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous
Douglas Howard. . . . ) Ed. Winstanley, L. Cambridge, 1907.
PROSE WORKS.
A View of the state of Ireland, written dialogue-wise betweene Eudoxus and
Irenaeus by Edmund Spenser Esq. in 1596. Pub: by Ware, J. , in the
Historie of Ireland, 1633. Later eds. 1763, 1809 (Ancient Irish Histories).
Also in Globe edition.
Letters to Gabriel Harvey. Three Proper and wittie, familiar Letters: lately
passed betweene two Universitie men: touching the Earthquake in Aprill
last, and our English refourmed Versifying. With the Preface of a well
willer to them both. 1580.
Two other very commendable Letters, of the same mens writing: both
touching the foresaid Artificiall Versifying, and certain other Particulars:
More lately delivered unto the Printer. (Design: charitas. ] Imprinted
at London, by H. Bynneman, dwelling in Thames Streate, neere unto
Baynardes Castell. Anno Domini, 1580.
See also the Letter Book of Gabriel Harvey, Camden Society, 1884.
8
:
COLLECTED WORKS.
The Second Folio, including the Shepheardes Calender and other works, and
differing in many respects from the First Folio. 1611. Other editions
1617-8 (see B. M. copy with notes by Warton, T. ); 1679; ed. Hughes, J. ,
6 vols. , 1715; 8 vols. , 1778 (Bell's Poets of Great Britain); 1792 (Ander-
son's Poets of Great Britain); 6 vols. , 1802 (first vol. of Aikin's edition
of Johnson's British Poets); with the principal illustrations of various
commentators, ed. by Todd, H. J. , 8 vols. , 1805, vol. ul includes: Hughes's
Essay on Allegorical Poetry, Hughes's Remarks on the Faerie Queene,
Spence's Dissertation on the Defects of Spenser's Allegory, Warton's
Remarks on the Plan and Conduct of the Faerie Queene, Warton's
Remarks on Spenser's Imitations from Old Romances, Warton's Re-
marks on Spenser's Allegorical Character, Editor's Remarks on Spenser's
Stanza, Versification and Language, Upton's Remarks on the Action
and History of the Faerie Queene, Hurd's Remarks on the Plan and
## p. 521 (#543) ############################################
Chapter XI
521
8
Conduct of the Faerie Queene; in Chalmers's Poets, 1810, vol. in includes
a Life of Spenser by Chalmers; in Aldine edition, Life by J. Mitford,
1839; Works, ed. by Gilfillan, 1859; Works, ed. by Collier, J. P. , 1862.
Globe edition. Ed. from the original editions and MSS by Morris, R. With
a memoir by Hales, J. W. 1869 ff. Revised ed. , 1897 ff.
Works. Ed. by Grosart, A. B. 1882-4. Vol. I includes a Life of Spenser by
the editor, also essays: Characteristics of Spenser's Poetry, by Aubrey
de Vere. Spenser the Poet and Teacher, by Dowden, E. Certain
Aspects of the Poetry of Spenser, by Philpot, W. B. The Introspec-
tion and Outlook of Spenser, by William Hubbard. Also Appendixes :
Entries Concerning Spenser from Burnley Church Register. Dialect
Words.
Friendship with Sir Philip Sidney, etc. eto. Vol. in includes
An Examination of earlier, contemporary and later English Pastoral
Poetry, by Gosse, E. W. Rider on the same (the editor). Who were
Rosalinde and Menalcas, etc. ? Notices of Edward Kirke, etc. Of the
Minor Poems of Spenser, by Palgrave, F. T.
.
SPURIOUS WORKS.
Brittain's Ida. Written by . . . Edmond Spenser. Walkley, 1628. (See
Giles and Phineas Fletcher's Works, vol. 11, ed. Boas, F. S. , Cambridge,
1909. )
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL WORKS.
Bryskett, Lodowick (A. 1571-1611). His Discourse of Civill Life, translated
from the Italian of Baptista Giraldo, was published in 1606, though
written much earlier. It is in the introduction to this book that the
famous passage concerning The Faerie Queene appears.
Carpenter, F. I. Outline Guide to the Study of Spenser. Chicago, 1894.
Church, R. W. Life of Spenser. English Men of Letters. 1879.
Spenser. T. H. Ward's Poets, vol. I. 1880 ff.
Courthope, W. J. The Genius of Spenser. 1868.
History of English Poetry. Vol. 11, chap. IX. 1897.
Craik, L. Spenser and his Poetry. 3 vols. 1845.
De Vere, A. Essays chiefly on Poetry. 2 vols. 1888.
Dodge, R. E. N. Spenser's Imitations from Ariosto. Mod. Lang. Ass. ,
1897, vol. XII.
Dowden, E. Spenser, the Poet and Teacher; Heroines of Spenser. Tran-
scripts and Studies. 1888.
Elton, O. Modern Studies. 1907.
Fleay, F. G. Guide to Chaucer and Spenser. 1877.
Grosart, A. B. Who Wrote Brittain's Ida ? 1869.
Hales, J. W. Folia Litteraria. 1893.
Harrison, J. S. Platonism in English Poetry. 1903.
Hazlitt, W. Chaucer and Spenser. The English Poets. 1818.
Hunt, Leigh. Imagination and Fancy. 1844.
Hunter, W. An Anglo-Saxon Grammar with . . . an analysis of the style of
Spenser. 1832.
Koeppel, E. Visions of Petrarch and Visions of Bellay. E. Stud. xv.
Landor, W. S. Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare . . . to
which is added a Conference of Master Edmund Spenser . . . with the
Earl of Essex touching the state of Ireland. 1834.
Imaginary Conversations: Essex and Spenser. 1834.
Lowell, J. R. Spenser. The English Poets. 1888.
Mantuan (Joannes Baptista Spagnuoli). Opera. 1504.
Morley, H. English Writers. Vol. IX. 1892.
## p. 522 (#544) ############################################
522
Bibliography
Pachen, J. De Dante à Verlaine . . . Spenser, etc. Paris, 1897.
Page, T. Spenser and Shakespeare. 1894.
Riedner, W. Spenser's Belesenheit. 1 Teil. Münchener Beitr. z. rom. 1. engl.
Phil. XXXVIII. Leipzig, 1907.
Ruskin, J. The Stones of Venice. 1851 ff.
Saintsbury, G. A History of English Prosody. Vol. 1, chap. v. 1906.
Sanazzaro, J. Opera omnia, 1535. Sonetti e Canzoni, 1530. [See also
Greswell, W. P. , Mems. of A. Politianus, Picus of Mirandola, A. S.
Sannazarius, P. Bembus, etc. 2nd ed. Manchester, 1805. ]
Sawtelle, A. E. Sources of Spenser's Classical Mythology. Boston, 1896.
Walther, M. Malory's Einfluss auf Spenser's Faerie Queene. Eisleben, 1898.
Willisins, J. De lingua Spenseriana ejusque fontibus. 1848.
[For further bibliography see Hales, J. W. and Lee, S. , in D. of N. B. ]
[A list of dissertations on Spenser will be found in Körting's Grundriss,
pp. 273 ff. ]
CHAPTER XII
THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET
I. ORIGINAL Texts.
Alexander, Sir William, earl of Stirling. Aurora.
